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Posted on 03/27/2021 7:04:05 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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“I haven’t bought a pear or peach or nectarine in ages.”
One can still buy decent pears.
It is rare to get a decent peach or nectarine from a store. If a peach smells at the grocery store, it will generally be OK.
Peach trees can still produce mature fruit that will ripen OK.
Tomato plants that produce full-size fruit have become genetically modified beyond grower control.
Sunny and cool here today. Last week proved to be spectacular for getting out in the garden. Parsley overwintered nicely and is coming on strong, crocus are blooming in a parade of white, purple, yellow and blue/whites, catnip is regenerating for the kitties.
Pulled a lot of a weedy thing(?) our of the side bed. It was spreading by rhizomes and took quite a while. I am sure I didn’t get it all. I’ll work on it as they show back up. Planted the spinach seeds and lettuce mix too.
Pulling chickweed like crazy! Good thing this darn stuff is edible. Adding it to salads and sandwich toppers.
Zone 6...My Black Krim were awesome last year. Very little cracking and only a few with real oddball shapes.
I have 4 trees about 10-12 years old, west Michigan.
Cool, looking forward to them.
For New Gardeners and Old Gardeners looking for New Ideas! Gardening Supply Sources, Books, and Online Videos and other interesting Gardening information complied from previous threads!
Yesterday I managed to get out to my farm. Dad loaded up the trailer with stuff for the backyard garden (including the tiller-tractor) while I disassembled one of the trellises. I managed to get the whole thing taken apart and the rebar pulled up, but ran out of muscle before I could move the hoops. They’re still laying where they fell.
I have 2 more left to take apart before I can think about tilling for this year.
The combination “winter wheat + garlic” patch is doing well. The wheat is still small, but it looks nice and green, like lawn grass. And the garlic plants were just poking their noses out of the ground.
FR post: “A bug acquired the DNA of a toxic plant, and now it’s running rampant”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3945734/posts
“...A bug known as a whitefly received a gene from a plant, and that DNA influx... changed it... The bug has been causing massive damage to tomato, potato, and tobacco crops, as the new gene allowed it to evade protections that plants develop against these pests....
...As far as we know, ours is the first example of horizontal transfer of a functional gene from plant to animal,”...
“I haven’t bought a pear or peach or nectarine in ages.”
I have the same problem here in SW Wisconsin! Once in a great while we’ll get a shipment of Georgia Peaches at a local farm stand where it’s not uncommon for fist-fights to break out over them, LOL!
I have two pear trees (Clap’s Favorite) but they’re a few years from producing, yet. I’m rebuilding a decent orchard at my ‘new’ farm (1906) after leaving an established orchard behind at my 1900 farm. ;)
While I have a 4’x8’ asparagus bed here now, I sure do miss my established 40’ row of the stuff that I also had to leave behind. I did bring some of that root stock with me; I’m no fool! :)
“Life is good in zone 8a”
How could it not be? :) I’m weeks behind you in Zone 4/5, but Hope Springs Eternal! :)
Got a persimmon tree here in the mountains of SW Virginia. This is the first year I expect fruit from it.
I’ve been told not to eat them until after a frost.
Mine got no care. It’s kinda sparse but OK.
Neighbor has a paw paw tree. Boy it just rains fruit when the time comes. Can’t give them away fast enough and they don’t keep well at all so lot goes in the trash.
“I am too old to look forward to another nice canopy taking shape there.”
I hear that! We have a HUGE Maple tree in our house yard that does SO MUCH for all of us. Afternoon shade, home to many woodpeckers and orioles, a mode of escape for the cats when the dogs spy them, and we tap it for sap in the spring. Beau made 8 quarts of Maple Syrup this season - he’s getting better at it!
Having planted hundreds of trees in my life so far, they truly are ‘friends,’ especially after you’ve known them for a few decades.
I’m going to cry many tears over losing that Maple when the day comes. :(
Rurals here may appreciate this:
“‘Now we close the doggie door at night’; South Carolina woman finds coyote in her kitchen”
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Garden Thread Ping to Post #26!
“The combination ‘winter wheat + garlic’ patch is doing well.”
That may be the perfect weed-control solution. Hope so!
Great. As if Tomato Hornworms and Japanese Beetles aren’t bad enough! :(
I’m not going to panic. Yet. Supposedly this ‘gene transfer’ happened 80 million years ago.
*SHUDDER*
The worst critters I’ve ever had in the house have been bats and birds and an escaped pet Ferret, but we caught him.
Oh, wait. I had a ‘rabid’ Mother-in-Law, Once Upon a Time, LOL!
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Blender smooth cup ice 1 1/2 oz tequila 1/2 oz triple sec 1/2 oz lime juice
tb sugar (or 1/2 oz peach schnapps) cup fresh peeled sliced peaches.
Pour into chilled margarita glass. Garnish with a peach slice, lime twist
I grew up in an area of Northern California where peaches, pears and apricots are grown. My grandparents knew several longtime local growers, so we always had oodles of gorgeous ripe fruit, often deemed unsuitable to send to the packing house. And of course all the fallen fruit we could haul away! You just don’t see decent stone fruit in the supermarket any more. Instead it’s all perfectly photogenic but rock-hard.
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